Jessie Sponberg is Running for Mayor! (Of Portland. Oregon)
“So, we can continue along our chosen path of exporting carnage, destruction, terror, munitions and war… and then have mainstream media pretend there are not coffins and consequences in the pursuit of “Development.” Used in the context of geography and culture, development is a code word neo-colonists use instead of exploitation. ”
Scared of Cops? Next COAB Meeting!
Next COAB Meeting:
Thursday
1/28/16 5:30-8:30pm
Professor Suspended for Saying there is One God
“I stand in religious solidarity with Muslims because they, like me, a Christian, are people of the book. And as Pope Francis stated last week, we worship the same God.”
~Larycia Hawkins
Weather in Missoula, Montana tonight… a couple minutes ago…
7 Pearl Harbor Day
6 Chanukah lasts 8 days
12 Poinsettia Day
22 Winter Solstice (shortest day of the year)
23 Festivus – for the rest of us!
25 Christmas
26 Kwanzaa
27 National Fruitcake Day
28 Boxing Day – not on the 26th this year
31 New Year’s Eve
December 2015 Portland Alliance
Speaking Truth to Power Since 1981
Unarmed US citizens killed by armed, uniformed “peace officers”
“Police work is often viewed by those in the force as an us-versus-them war rather than a chance for community-oriented engagement and problem solving. The authors also point to a lack of accountability as one of the reasons why police violence persists.”
Tamir Rice report: Tamir was unarmed; officers shot twice, no warning.
Two experts in police use of force commissioned by the Rice family found “the shooting was unjustified.” Those experts, Roger Clark and Jeffrey J. Noble, also found that the prosecutors reports “contradicted one another, made unfounded assumptions and ignored principles of police training.”
Conspiracy Theory 101: Some claims are nutty and other claims are true…
in April 1967, the CIA wrote a dispatch which coined the term “conspiracy theories” …
The November 2015 Portland Alliance
Of, by, and for the People! http://www.ThePortlandAlliance.org/2015/November
Speaking Truth to Power Since 1981
The Great “Mental Illness” Hoax: Rampage Killings and Gun Culture
…For the past several years polling data has revealed that the vast majority of Americans want tougher gun controls – beyond enhanced background checks and bans on military-grade weapons or limits to high-powered magazines.



